New Ideas Festival 2017: Call for Directors

Never-before-produced short scripts have been submitted, and 15 selected for Alumnae Theatre Company’s New Ideas Festival in March.  Now it’s time for interested directors to apply!  Once you’ve submitted your application (and the deadline is next Friday, Oct 14), you’ll be given access to read the scripts.

Here’s the official notice:

CALL FOR DIRECTORS

Alumnae Theatre Company invites non-union directors to apply to direct one of the 15 plays (running time 10 to 40 minutes) for New Ideas Festival (NIF) 2017, our 29th annual three-week juried festival of new plays, works-in-progress, and experimental theatre to be held from March 8 to 26, 2017.

 

Important dates:

• Oct. 14, 2016: Deadline to apply to direct one of the New Ideas Festival plays
• Nov. 5, 2016: (MANDATORY) Creative Exchange: directors meet playwrights
• 6, 7, 8, or 9, 2016: (MANDATORY) Attend your play’s cold reading on one of these dates
• Jan 4-8, 2017: (MANDATORY) Attend Festival auditions according to casting needs
• , Jan. 30, 2017: Rehearsals begin
• March 8 – Sun. March 26, 2017: New Ideas Festival. Each show runs one week.

 

NIF provides the following:

• Stage managers, technical crew, and front of house staff
• Festival auditions presenting a large pool of actors
• Rehearsal space, performance space
• Promotional materials and publicity
• Access to Alumnae Theatre’s wardrobe, props, and sets
• A collaborative process with the playwright to continue developing a new work with actors and a dramaturge (if requested)
• A supportive place for directors to experiment and hone their skills
• Production guidelines and mentorship that get all the plays and dozens of performers successfully from audition to rehearsal to stage.

 

New Ideas Festival does not pay fees, royalties, or a box office share to participants.

Alumnae Theatre Company retains creative discretion over the festival as a whole. The focus of the festival is script development, so technical requirements for the plays are kept to a minimum. NIF is an exciting opportunity to work one-on-one with a playwright to develop a new work.

 

If you are interested in directing a play in the New Ideas Festival, email newideasfestival@gmail.com by Oct 14, 2016.  Please make the subject line “Director Application (your name)” and provide a directing CV or paragraph description of your experience. You will receive further details once you have submitted your application.

 

As our industry has far fewer female directors, women directors are especially encouraged to apply.

Alumnae Theatre Company ▪ 70 Berkeley Street ▪ Toronto, ON ▪ M5A 2W6

http://www.alumnaetheatre.com

Gay Play Day seeks script for inaugural festival

Passing on a notice that came via Alumnae Theatre’s Twitter account.  (You can follow us at @alumnaetheatre)

Gay Play Day is a festival of short plays by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered playwrights, about the LGBT experience.   It will run in Toronto on September 29 & 30th, 2012  (Venue TBA).  Submission deadline is June 25th.

http://gayplayday.blogspot.ca/

• Call for submissions…
  Gay Play Day is now accepting submissions from playwrights and/or directors for the inaugural Gay Play Day festival which will take place at a downtown Toronto venue on September 29 & 30th, 2012.

  Submission Guidelines –
  • Each playwright and/or director may submit only one script.
  • GPD only accepts electronic submissions in Word format.
  • GPD is looking for short plays that run less than 15 minutes. Less is fine, longer is not. Ten minutes would be ideal.
  • The title page should include the playwright’s name, the character list and a brief synopsis of the play.
  • The title page must also include the company’s contact name (if different from playwright), address, phone number and email address.
  • Plays should contain no more than 4 characters.
  • Set and technical requirements should be fairly simple – ie:  basically lights up and lights down. Your set should also be minimal – a table and two chairs, for example. Nothing is even better!
  • Musicals, children’s shows, and any unsolicited longer one-act or full-length plays are not accepted and will not receive a response.
  • If selected, each company is responsible to cast and rehearse their own play.
  •  A tech person will be provided by Gay Play Day for the tech rehearsal and performances.
  •Companies are not offered any financial compensation for their involvement, however the festival is a great format to showcase your creative talents.
  •A cash prize will be awarded to the play that wins the audience favourite award.

  Gay Play Day is not associated with the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

  Please send script submissions to gayplayday@gmail.com

• The deadline for submissions is June 25th at midnight.
• Applicants will be notified of inclusion in the festival by July 10th, 2012.